Description

Given an accurate boresight and rotator angle from a camera, we should be able to construct our best initial estimate of the WCS for a sensor by combining that information with our own camera geometry, as this will probably produce better results that relying on any WCS provided directly by the camera. In fact, for LSST, it's not clear that there even will be a sensor WCS provided directly by the camera, because LSST raw data has amps in different HDUs and no full-sensor HDU that could unproblematically hold a full-sensor WCS.

To do without using astshim code directly, we should provide utility functions in afw with something like the following signatures: